How Psychological Suffering Can Help You Grow Stronger
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places" (Ernest Hemingway) Ernest Hemingway spoke of a universal psychological truth, when in A Farewell to Arms, he suggested that you grow stronger in your broken places, much like a wound that heals itself by growing a protective scab. Those who suffer through difficult experiences and invalidating environments Continue Reading...
> Read MoreWhy You Shouldn’t Avoid Your Painful Past…
The title of my blog post this week contains one of the essential insights of my work as a psychologist. Too many people spend their lives leaving places they have never actually arrived at. A person who had a traumatic childhood might say they would rather just forget about the past and move on, which is their way of leaving Continue Reading...
> Read MoreCan You Heal a Traumatic Past?
The Past Never Lasts: Changing the Past from the Future “The past never lasts”. Such was the slogan posted on a colleagues’ bulletin board, when I worked in a treatment center for traumatized adolescents. My colleague used it to remind her young clients that things might seem bad for now, but that any memory that brings pain is but a Continue Reading...
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